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hooleylist
Feb 14, 2010Cirrostratus
Hi Jeremiah,
I have heard of a few major (some root) DNS servers being load balanced through LTM. So hopefully you'll get some experienced suggestions here.
Isn't the zone transfer done over TCP? If so, and you've configured a UDP only VIP, you should be able to use a very low idle timeout without failures on the UDP VIP and a slightly longer timeout for the TCP VIP. As Jesse pointed out in the thread linked below, any UDP packet would add a new entry in the connection table. So you shouldn't need to worry about removing the connection table entries too early.
http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&view=topic&postid=814020&ptarget=814306
If this is a UDP-only DNS server you wouldn't need to change the "loose initiaition" setting at all because any UDP packet will generate a new connection table entry.
Aaron